Journalist and two police officers arrested as part of Operation Elveden

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Anthony France, a crime reporter on The Sun, has been held at his home in HertfordshireNews Group Newspapers Ltd

Sean O'NeillCrime Editor

Published at 12:01AM, January 18 2013

A Sun reporter and two serving Metropolitan Police officers were
arrested yesterday as part of Scotland Yard’s investigation into alleged
illegal payments by newspapers.

The journalist, who was named by colleagues as Anthony France, 39, the
newspaper’s crime reporter, was arrested at 6am at his home in
Hertfordshire.

Two weeks ago, Mr France had written a story exposing how four officers and a
member of police staff had been removed following allegations of misconduct
from the Yard’s various inquiries into newspapers. He was also part of The
Sun reporting team which broke the plebgate story about Andrew
Mitchell’s confrontation with